brass monkey

a 40 of olde english 800 mixed with some oj.

typically one drinks the 40 down until the beer is level with the top of the cylinder of the bottle, then fill the bottle back up to the top with orange juice.

it is a very tasty treat.

otherwise known as the “poor man’s mimosa.”
you wanna hit this cognac man?

nah… poor man’s mimosas until the day i die…
every sailing ship had to have cannon for protection. cannon of the times required round iron cannonb-lls. the master wanted to store the cannonb-lls such that they could be of instant use when needed, yet not roll around the gun deck. the solution was to stack them up in a square-based pyramid next to the cannon. the top level of the stack had one ball, the next level down had four, the next had nine, the next had sixteen, and so on. four levels would provide a stack of 30 cannonb-lls. the only real problem was how to keep the bottom level from sliding out from under the weight of the higher levels. to do this, they devised a small br-ss plate (“br-ss monkey”) with one rounded indentation for each cannonball in the bottom layer. br-ss was used because the cannonb-lls wouldn’t rust to the “br-ss monkey”, but would rust to an iron one.

when temperature falls, br-ss contracts in size faster than iron. as it got cold on the gun decks, the indentations in the br-ss monkey would get smaller than the iron cannonb-lls they were holding. if the temperature got cold enough, the bottom layer would pop out of the indentations spilling the entire pyramid over the deck. thus it was, quite literally, cold enough to freeze the b-lls off a br-ss monkey.
cold enough to freeze the b-lls off a br-ss monkey.
a drink made from mixing a 40oz bottle of malt liquor with orange juice. commonly on tha street, this is done by drinking your 40 to the top of its label, then filling it to the top with oj. this drink was popularized in the beastie boys song, “br-ss monkey”
“i’ll down a 40 dog in a single gulp and if you got beef you’ll get beat to a pulp” excerpt from “br-ss monkey”
rather chilly!
“f–kin h-ll man, its cold enough to freeze the b-lls off a br-ss monkey!”

abbrev. to : br-ss monkeys

i.e. : its br-ss monkeys out here
(n) 1. an alcoholic beverage consisting of vodka, rum (usually dark), and orange juice. essentially a screwdriver with rum. named for the br-ss-like color the dark rum and oj create when mixed.
2. an alcoholic beverage consisting of malt liquor (usually 8 ball or st. ides) and sunny delight.
3. a 40 oz bottle of booze
4. a dance one can only do when drunk out of his mind.
5. a p-n-s; a d-ck or schl-ng
6. an expression used to mean cold or chilly weather.
1. “monkey tastes def when you pour it on ice
come on y’all it’s time to get nice” – the beastie boys, “br-ss monkey”
2. “cause i drink it anytime – and anyplace
when it’s time to get ill – i pour it on my face” – the beastie boys
3. i’m going to get some o’ dat br-ss monkey down on crenshaw, j …you wanna come?
4. “i got gold, i got funky
i got the new dance they call the br-ss monkey”- “slow ride”, beastie boys
5. d-mn, she was all up on my br-ss monkey.
6. it’s cold enough to freeze a br-ss monkey’s b-lls or it’s colder than a br-ss monkey’s -ss.

while the exact origin of the term ‘br-ss monkey’ is unkown, it’s 200-plus year usage history indicates its original meaning is related to the kelvin spheres that sit on either side of a ship’s binnacle. the b-lls, which are iron, help offset magnetic shifts so the comp-ss inside the binnacle remains pointed toward magnetic north. the two b-lls are traditionally mounted on br-ss arms, which were called ‘monkeys’ by sailors in the 18th and 19th centuries.

the phrase ‘cold enough to freeze the b-lls off a br-ss monkey’ didn’t rear its head into common usage until the 20th century. original uses referred to ‘freezing the tail of a br-ss monkey,’ or ‘melting the nose off a br-ss monkey,’ and can be found in 19th century sailing texts like herman melville’s “omoo” (‘…it was ‘ot enough to melt the nose h’off a br-ss monkey….’).

again, while the exact meaning is unkown, the term has beeen definitively rejected by the department of the navy, the oxford english dictionary and other noted etymologists as describing a pyramid of cannonb-lls on a br-ss tray. not only were they never used on board ship during the age of sail as they would have rolled everywhere with the rocking of the ship, but the b-lls and tray would expand and contract at nearly the same rate due to cold and heat, and therefore the stack would never have fallen apart due temperature change.
‘cold enough to freeze the tail off a br-ss monkey.’
alcoholic beverage consisting of rum, vodka,and orange juice.
this is the recipe of the drink that inspired the beastie boys to write br-ss monkey. it’s a popular drink to have when your in high school. and i mean “in” school. teachers and faculty can’t detect the smell of alcohol over the orange juice.